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Introduction / Ganesh Sitaraman & Anne Alstott -- More than meets the eye : government social provision and the politics of "public options" / Mallory SoRelle & Suzanne Mettler -- The entrpreneurial state : socializing risks and rewards / Mariana Mazzucato & Henry Lishi Li -- Challenges in designing equitable public options / Anne Alstott & Ganesh Sitaraman -- What about private options / Jon D. Michaels -- The original - and still the best? : the health insurance public option and the politics of social reform / Jacob S. Hacker -- The irony of health care's public option / Allison K. Hoffman -- Promoting quality and equality through a public option in early childhood education and care / Kimberly J. Morgan -- Revamping public energy / Shelley Welton -- A public option in banking : postal banking / Mehrsa Baradaran.

"The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona's Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. This book offers the first comprehensive account of this progressive program by those who created it, implemented it, and have struggled to protect it"--

POLICY POINTS: States are enacting a host of policy initiatives designed to reduce the number of Americans without health insurance. Policymakers and policy analysts need to examine whether this "laboratory of federalism" is producing ideas that can and should be replicated on a national scale. This article evaluates reform efforts in two states: Washington state, which enacted what its policymakers call a "public option" and New Mexico, which failed in its effort to enact a Medicaid buy‐in. Some common themes emerge. First, without federal funding, state efforts to aid the uninsured remain limited. Second, the gap between commercial and public insurance reimbursement rates poses an additional significant obstacle. Washington state was able to overcome these obstacles by enacting a law (called Cascade Care) which imposes public sector reimbursement rates in a commercial insurance market (the state's ACA Marketplace). This quasi‐ or redefined public option could become a politically viable model for federal policymakers.

We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaining and downstream market power in the private sector, but are of lower quality. Public pharmacies induced market segmentation and price increases in the private sector, benefiting the switchers to the public option but harming the stayers. The countrywide entry of public pharmacies would reduce yearly consumer drug expenditure by 1.6 percent, which outweighs the costs of the policy by 52 percent.